We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how… — Mark Twain
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.
A Tramp Abroad · 1880
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Twain, Mark. "A Tramp Abroad." Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Travels, edited by Roy Blount, Jr. Library of America, 2010, ch. 43.
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Twain, Mark. A Tramp Abroad. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1880, ch. 43.
